Atiu Rauti Para Report

The Rauti Para tablet training for senior citizens in the southern Cook Islands funded by SPC EU GCCA; PSIS in partnership with SRIC CC Adaptation Fund and implementing partners, Climate Change Cook Islands and ICT both from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Telecom Cook Islands, and Rauti Para (NGO) continued on the island of Atiu from the 10th – 14th March 2014.

The initiative is to up skill senior citizens in the Pa Enua (outer islands) to confidently use the tablet to communicate and access information on the web to assist them with decision making in building resilience to the slow onset of climate change. Secondly, in parallel to the training is a video documentary supported by a survey to substantiate the changes that are observed by the people on their respective islands for qualitative data to establish climate change indicators.